Papa2118

To be honest, other than price compared to other brands that have a few more features, these Samcom's have worked pretty well for my purposes. I'm still considering returning them since I can get something better for around the same price, but the performance and audio quality has been pretty decent. Long term reliability I don't know since I've had them only a few weeks and I'd prefer something I can charge with USB.

Anyway, got it working. Turns out two of the K-12 radios were defective. There are two others that are working fine. The K-12s I didn't buy, nor would I. My grandkids got them for Christmas from someone I don't know on their father's side.

Samcon says the FPCN30A is GMRS type approved. I have the programming software and the out of the box settings are (verified by reading the settings from the radio).

Have done everything suggest and still no luck. I'm seriously considering sending the Samcoms back and getting maybe a couple BTECH GMRS-V2. The BTECH look to be more bang for the buck.

I have a couple Samcom FPCN30a's I'm trying to talk to some cheapie Topsung K-12 FRS radios. Freq (Ch 7) is the same for both according to he chart for the K-12's with 12.5 bandwidth. I have CTCSS and DCS is off on both the K-12 and the Samcom for the channel I'm using. The Samcom visually shows it's receiving a signal when I key the K-12, but no audio is heard. I can't figure what I might be missing.